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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
BoethiusBoethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate … can look fortune in the face.
BoethiusBoethius No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BoethiusBoethius One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
BoethiusBoethius Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
BoethiusBoethius Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
BoethiusBoethius All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BoethiusBoethius Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top.
BoethiusBoethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
BoethiusBoethius And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
BoethiusBoethius Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
BoethiusBoethius In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BoethiusBoethius Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
BoethiusBoethius The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
BoethiusBoethius Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
BoethiusBoethius The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
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Bruce LeeBruce Lee If you’re going to stay in faith, you have to remember what God said. Go back to His promises. Start thanking Him for what He told you. Start declaring favor, victory, healing.
Joel OsteenJoel Osteen Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If you will be faithful to a few things, you will someday become the ruler over many things.
Jim RohnJim Rohn God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VoltaireVoltaire The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert FrostRobert Frost Let faith rise in your heart.
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